# συνάγω
## Ancient Greek
### Alternative forms

* ξυνάγω (xunágō)

### Etymology

From συν- (sun-, “with, together”) +‎ ἄγω (ágō, “lead, guide”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /sy.ná.ɡɔː/ → /syˈna.ɣo/ → /siˈna.ɣo/
* (5th BCE Attic) IPA: /sy.ná.ɡɔː/
* (1st CE Egyptian) IPA: /syˈna.ɡo/
* (4th CE Koine) IPA: /syˈna.ɣo/
* (10th CE Byzantine) IPA: /syˈna.ɣo/
* (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA: /siˈna.ɣo/

### Verb

συνάγω • (sunágō)
* (of persons, animals, etc.) to bring together, gather together
** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 6.87, (Compare Herodotus, Histories 2.111, 3.150)
** 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 7.60
** 405 BCE, Euripides, The Bacchae 562
** 497 BCE – 405 BCE, Sophocles, Fragments 468
** 408 BCE, Euripides, Orestes 1640, (Compare Aristophanes, Lysistrata 585)
** 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 2.84
** 428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, Phaedrus 256C, (Compare Theaetetus 194B)
** 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Politics 3.11.4
** 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Politics 4.15.8
** 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Politics 3.14.12
** to bring together for deliberation or festivity
*** Batrachomyomachia 134
*** 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 6.85
*** 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 8.59
*** 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 2.60
*** 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 1.120
*** 343 BCE, Demosthenes, On the False Embassy 1
** (in a hostile sense) to join battle
*** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 2.381
*** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 5.861
*** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 14.448
*** 436 BCE – 338 BCE, Isocrates, Collected Works 57D:πόλεμον συνάγωpólemon sunágō
*** to match two warriors against one another
**** 467 BCE, Aeschylus, Seven Against Thebes 508
**** 46 CE – 120 CE, Plutarch, Poplicola 9
**** 300 BCE – 200 BCE, Theocritus, Collected Works 22.82, (Compare Polybius, The Histories 11.18.4)
*** to collect or levy soldiers
**** 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Hellenica 3.1.5
** to bring together, join in one, unite
*** 7th–6th centuries BC, Homeric Hymn to Hermes 507
*** 467 BCE, Aeschylus, Seven Against Thebes 756
*** 412 BCE, Euripides, Helen 644, (Compare Aristophanes, The Acharnians 991)
*** 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Memorabilia 2.6.36
*** 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Symposium 4.64
*** 380 BCE, Plato, The Republic 365D
*** 428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, Laws 625E
** to bring together, make friends of, reconcile
*** 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Metaphysics 2.4.18
*** 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Demosthenes, Against Theocrines 42, (Compare Plato, The Statesman 311C)
** to collect oneself
*** 46 CE – 120 CE, Plutarch, Philopoemen 20
** to lead with one, receive
*** 300 BCE – 200 BCE, Septuagint, 1 Kings 11.27, (Compare 19 15)
*** 70 CE – 110 CE, The Gospel of Matthew 25:35
* (of things) gather together
** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 5.291
** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 14.296
** 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Anabasis 6.2.8
** 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 6.119
** 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Politics 5.11.14
** 200 BCE – 118 BCE, Polybius, The Histories 12.2.5
** 70 CE – 110 CE, The Gospel of Matthew 6:26
** 428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, The Statesman 311C
** 342 BCE – 290 BCE, Menander, Monostiches 196
** 342 BCE – 291 BCE, Diphilus, The Painter 2.28
** 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Memorabilia 3.10.2, (Compare Plato, The Republic 488A)
*** (of a historical writer) summarize
**** 436 BCE – 338 BCE, Isocrates, Collected Works 285B
**** 436 BCE – 338 BCE, Isocrates, Collected Works 319B
**** 428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, Laws 811A, (Compare The Sophist 251D)
**** 389 BCE – 314 BCE, Aeschines, Collected Works 47.26
**** Diogenes Laërtius 4.33
** to draw together, so as to make the extremities meet
*** 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 6.113
*** 407 BCE, Euripides, Iphigenia in Aulis 290
*** 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 4.125, (Compare 1.63)
*** 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 4.52
*** 420 BCE – 380 BCE, Timaeus of Locri, Collected Works 101B
*** 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, History of Animals 8.4.3
*** to draw together, narrow, contract
**** 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 7.23
**** 200 BCE – 118 BCE, Polybius, The Histories 5.93.5
**** 350 BCE, Aristotle, Parts of Animals 3.3.11
**** 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, History of Animals 1.17.3
**** 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Meteorology 2.1.9
**** 250 CE – 350 CE, Athenaeus, Deipnosophistae 477E
**** 497 BCE – 405 BCE, Sophocles, Fragments 752
**** 405 BCE, Aristophanes, The Frogs 823
**** 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Problems 31.7.6
**** 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Cynegeticus 3.5, (Compare Aristophanes, The Knights 1348)
*** (figuratively)
**** 95 CE – 165 CE, Appian, On Hannibal 60
**** 200 BCE – 118 BCE, Polybius, Histories 1.18.7, (and v. 10)
** to collect or club things for a picnic
*** Diphil., The Painter 2.28
** to collect from premises, i.e. to conclude, infer, draw an inference
*** 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Rhetoric 1.2.13
*** 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Rhetoric 2.22.15
*** 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Metaphysics 7.1.1
*** 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Politics 4.15.8
*** 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Rhetoric 1.15.33, (Compare Lucian, How to Write History 16)
*** 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Politics 2.12.7
*** 60 BCE – 7 BCE, Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Roman Antiquities 4.6
** (passive voice) to be carried along with
*** 420 BCE – 380 BCE, Timaeus of Locri, Collected Works 98E
** to bring about
*** 95 CE – 165 CE, Appian, Bella Civilia 1.101
*** 95 CE – 165 CE, Appian, Bella Civilia 5.145

#### Synonyms

* (match two warriors): συμβάλλω (sumbállō), συνίημι (suníēmi)

#### Derived terms

* σῠνᾰγωγή (sŭnăgōgḗ)
* σῠνᾰγωγός (sŭnăgōgós)

### References

* “συνάγω”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
* συνάγω in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
* συνάγω in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
* G4863 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible